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There is a lot of stuff going on the City, and we can't write about it all. Here are some interesting things some of our friends have written up lately.

• 6sqft ⇒ With Loan Secured, Brooklyn's Tallest Skyscraper Is Finally Ready to Rise
• Brooklyn Paper ⇒ New Prospect: City Unveils Winning Design for Massive Shirley Chisholm Memorial in Prospect Park
• Crain's New York Business ⇒ Head of Governors Island to Step Down
• Curbed NY ⇒ The Last Days of Times Square’s Peep Shows
• Daytonian in Manhattan ⇒ The Byam K. Stevens House - 11 East 78th Street
• Free Williamsburg ⇒ GovBallNYC Announces After Dark Shows
• Gothamist ⇒ The Flower Guy Looks Back on 25 Years of New York Graffiti
• Greenpointers ⇒ New Axe Throwing Bars Coming to Williamsburg and Downtown Brooklyn
• Harlem + Bespoke ⇒ Shop: Bank Replaces Former Lenox Lounge
• Naked Capitalism ⇒ NYC vs Another Fracked Gas Pipeline: Notes From Activists on the Ground | Naked Capitalism
• QNS.com ⇒ With Amazon Gone, Queens Building's Owners May Boot Local Library Branch
• The Infatuation ⇒ Virginia’s - East Village - New York - the Infatuation
• Thrillist ⇒ NYC’s Most Noteworthy Restaurant Openings of 2019 (So Far)
• Untapped Cities ⇒ 10 Fun Facts About NYC’s Central Park
• Washington Square Park Blog ⇒ On Twitter: NYU Quit Appropriating Washington Square Park
• Welcome2TheBronx ⇒ History of the Bronx's Bridge Park & Roberto Clemente State Park

Captured by photojournalist Dan Budnik in 1976, this great vintage photograph shows the busy clothing shops that used to line Orchard Street on Manhattan's Lower East Side. For decades, Orchard street was the go-to spot for inexpensive clothing in New York City, a retail outlet for the immigrant-run businesses that often operated in the tiny tenement apartments above them.